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- the invention relates to rod lasers having a ring cavity configuration. More particularly, the invention relates to rod lasers having a ring cavity configuration, and including means for compensating for output beam optical distortions due to thermal focal lensing, rod birefringence, and spherical aberration.
- ring laser will denote a rod laser having a ring cavity configuration
- YAG rod laser will denote any solid state laser rod (e.g., a Nd:YAG laser rod)
- YAG ring laser will denote any ring laser resonator including a solid state laser rod (e.g., a ring laser resonator including a Nd:YAG rod).
- M.sup. ( ⁇ /4L) (2B) (2W), where L is the laser wavelength, 2B is the full angle far-field beam divergence, and 2W is the laser beam focal spot diameter.
- Rod lasers have been employed in a variety of commercial applications.
- YAG ring lasers (of the type including a Nd:YAG rod) have been proposed, for example in A. R. Clobes, et al., "Single-frequency Travelingwave Nd:YAG Laser,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 21, pp. 265-267, (1972).
- Such an output beam would preferably have not only high power but also low far-field beam divergence and low laser beam focal spot diameter.
- an intra-cavity telescope consisting of a pair of lenses with variable inter-lens spacing
- the spacing between the lenses of the telescope is varied to compensate for thermally induced variation in the rod focal length.
- a servo positioning mechanism to vary the telescope lens spacing. Measured signals indicative of output beam power have been used as feedback signals for such servo positioning mechanisms.
- the present invention is a ring laser capable of producing a high quality output beam over a wide and varying output power range, without the need for more than one laser rod, and with enhanced laser system component lifetime.
- the invention is a ring laser including a polarization rotator to compensate for birefringence of the laser's rod.
- the rotator is a 90° crystal quartz rotator.
- the ring laser of the invention is a stable, quasi-unidirectional, non-confocal solid state ring laser.
- An intra-cavity telescope, including two or more lenses with variable inter-lens spacing, is preferably positioned as closely as possible to the laser rod.
- the spacing between the telescope lenses is preferably controlled automatically by a servo mechanism.
- the feedback signal for the servo mechanism is produced by a power density meter or a collimation detector.
- the spacing between the telescope lenses may alternatively be controlled manually.
- the telescope lenses are preferably shaped to compensate for spherical aberration induced by the laser rod.
- the invention maintains a high quality output beam (having low far-field beam divergence and small laser beam focal spot diameter) over a wide range of output beam power.
- the output beam is particularly useful for such applications as high speed drilling, welding, and cutting.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a simplified plan view of another preferred embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an alternative embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 4 is a graph of output laser beam quality (M 2 ) versus output beam power for three conventional laser systems and for an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
- Rod 1 is powered in a conventional manner so as to produce laser beam 26.
- Mirrors 5, 7, 9, and 11 direct laser beam 26 along a ring-shaped path.
- Apertures may optionally be included between pairs of mirrors 5, 7, 9, and 11 to define the path of beam 26, and to constrain the energy in beam 26 to propagate in a desired mode.
- Each of mirrors 5, 9, and 11 preferably has maximal reflectivity at the laser wavelength.
- Mirror 7 preferably has high reflectivity, but is capable of transmitting a relatively small fraction of the laser light incident thereon.
- the output beam 28 is diverted from the ring by partially reflective mirror 13.
- laser beam 26 is rendered quasi-unidirectional, with most of its power propagating in a counter-clockwise direction.
- a first portion of the counter-clockwise component of beam 26 is reflected by mirror 13 toward partially reflective mirror 35, and a second portion of the counter-clockwise component of beam 26 is transmitted from mirror 7 through mirror 13 toward mirror 9.
- Such first portion comprises a major component of output beam 28.
- a first portion of the clockwise component of beam 26 (identified by reference numeral 27) is reflected by mirror 13 toward mirror 17, and is reflected by mirror 17 back towards mirror 13.
- part of the reflected beam from mirror 17 is reflected by mirror 13 back towards mirror 9, and the remainder propagates through mirror 13 to comprise part of output beam 28.
- the remaining portion of the clockwise component of beam 26 is transmitted from mirror 9 through mirror 13 toward mirror 7.
- the counter-clockwise component of beam 26 includes the major portion of the total beam power.
- the solid state ring laser of the invention is preferably operated as a stable, quasi-unidirectional, non-confocal laser, although in alternative embodiments it may lack one or more of these three characteristics.
- the ring laser of the invention may be operated in a regime in which it is unstable or confocal.
- the mirrors of the invention may be selected and positioned so that substantially half the power in beam 26 propagates clockwise and substantially half the power in beam 26 propagates counter-clockwise.
- Visible laser beam 40 emerges from helium-neon laser 39, propagates through aperture 41, reflects from mirror 43, and propagates through mirror 9 so as to combine with beam 26. Addition of a visible component into beam 26 is useful for checking the alignment of the ring laser system components with which beam 26 interacts.
- a minor portion of output beam 28 is reflected in partially reflective mirror 35 to output beam power measurement unit 33.
- the major portion of output beam 28 propagates through mirror 35 and shutter 37 into optical telescope 39.
- Mirror 35, power detector 33, optical telescope 39, and shutter 37 may be omitted in variations on the FIG. 1 embodiment.
- Unit 39 may be selected from commercially available optical telescope units capable of varying the far-field divergence and focal spot diameter of output beam 28.
- Intra-cavity telescope 3 is disposed adjacent rod 1 (preferably as closely as possible to rod 1) to compensate for this thermal focal lensing effect.
- Telescope 3 includes lenses 2 and 4, which are mounted so that their relative separation is variable.
- Servo control unit 19 is mechanically coupled to telescope 3 so that unit 19 may control the relative separation of lenses 2 and 4 of telescope 3.
- telescope 3 in FIG. 1 includes only two lenses, it is specifically contemplated that a telescope including more than two lenses may be substituted for telescope 3, provided that the spacing between at least one pair of lenses in such an alternative telescope is variable.
- Power density meter 31 supplies a measured signal indicative of the power of beam 26 to control unit 19 on line 32.
- power density meter includes aperture 36 and light detector 38.
- a fraction of beam 26 (identified as beam portion 26a in FIG. 1) propagates from mirror 5 through partially reflective mirror 7, converging lens 29, and aperture 36 to detector 38.
- the focal length of lens 29 is chosen so that if beam 26(and hence beam 26a) is perfectly collimated, then lens 29 will focus beam 26a so that beam 26a has its smallest diameter when it passes through aperture 36.
- detector 38 will send an output signal on line 32 indicating maximum incident power at detector 38.
- aperture 36 will block a greater portion of beam 26a (then in the case that beam 26a is perfectly collimated), and so detector 38 will send an output signal on line 32 indicating less than maximum incident power.
- Control unit 19 includes conventional means for controlling telescope 3 in response to the measured power signal received from detector 38 on line 32. Control unit 19 will not cause a change in the spacing between lenses 2 and 4 when beam 26a is collimated, but will increase or decrease the spacing between lenses 2 and 4 when detector 38 indicates that beam 26a is not collimated.
- the measured power signal supplied from detector 38 on line 32 may be displayed rather than supplied to a control unit 19.
- a human operator would then manually control the spacing between lenses 2 and 4 of telescope 3 in response to the magnitude of the displayed power signal.
- Polarization rotator 21 (which preferably is a crystal quartz rotator) is mounted along the path of beam 26 to compensate for the effect of thermal birefringence of rod 1 on beam 26. Such effect results essentially in different focal lengths for radially polarized light and tangentially polarized light emerging from rod 1.
- Rotator 21 rotates the polarization of both the radial and tangential components of beam 26 by an angle selected to equalize the effect of rod 1's thermal birefringence on beam 26.
- Rotator 21 will preferably be a 90° rotator, in the sense that it the polarization of beam 26 by an angle substantially equal to 90 degrees.
- rotator 21 may alternatively rotate the polarization of beam 26 by an angle substantially equal to 270 degrees or 450 degrees, or more generally, by an angle substantially equal to [90+(N) (180)] degrees, where N is a positive integer.
- the effect of rotator 21 may be understood by considering that the photons comprising beam 26, on the average, traverse the ring defined by mirrors 5, 7, 9, and 11 at least twice (i.e., twice as opposed to once).
- the first time the components of beam 26 traverse the ring they will have a first polarization relative to rod 1
- the second time those components of beam 26 traverse the ring they will have a second polarization relative to rod 1.
- the first and second polarizations differ by an angle substantially equal to 90°, so that each component of beam 26 that is radially polarized the first time it traverses rod 1 will be tangentially polarized the second time it traverses the same region within rod 1. In this way, the thermal birefringence effects on radial and tangential focal lengths developed in the first pass through rod 1 can be equalized by a second pass through rod 1.
- Polarization rotator 21 preferably comprises crystal quartz (in contrast with fused quartz), and preferably comprises crystal quartz of the type absorbing as little light as possible. Typically, commercially available synthetic crystal quartz will absorb less light than will natural crystal quartz. In alternative embodiments of the invention, other means for rotating the polarization of beam 26 may be substituted for a crystal quartz rotator.
- rotator 21 may be a Faraday rotator, preferably of the type capable of rotating the polarization of beam 26 by an angle substantially equal to 90°.
- FIG. 2 is a simplified plan view of another embodiment of the invention.
- Rod 1, mirrors 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 17, rotator 21, aperture 23, converging lens 29, and power density meter 31 are identical to the corresponding elements of the FIG. 1 system.
- most of the power in beam 26 propagates in the counter-clockwise direction, and output beam 28 propagates toward the right.
- beam 26 has lower power in the left portion of the ring (between mirror 9 and the left end of rod 1) and higher power in the right portion of the ring (from the right end of rod 1 counter-clockwise to mirror 13).
- Telescope 3' corresponds to telescope 3 of FIG. 1, but is positioned in the low power portion of the FIG. 2 ring whereas telescope 3 is positioned in the high power portion of the FIG. 1 ring. Telescope 3' is preferably positioned as closely as possible adjacent rod 1. It is advantageous to position both telescope 3', and the other optical components of the system, in the low power portion of the ring (in contrast with the high power portion) in order to maximize the lifetime of these components.
- Control unit 19' is identical to control unit 19 of the FIG. 1 embodiment, and may be replaced by a display unit for displaying the signal supplied on line 32 (as described above with reference to FIG. 1).
- Each of telescope lenses 2' and 4' in the FIG. 2 embodiment is preferably selected to have a shape that will compensate, at least partially, for the spherical aberration introduced by rod 1. Compensation for such spherical aberration will further improve the system's output beam quality.
- means are preferably provided for oscillating aperture 36 at high frequency in directions parallel to beam 26a (i.e., for imparting "jitter” to aperture 36 parallel to the axis of beam 26a).
- This high-frequency oscillation increases the stability of the control signal generated in servo control unit 19 (or 19') and allows unit 19 (19') to more rapidly compensate for variations in the power and divergence of beam 26a.
- Element 31 (including components 36 and 38) thus comprises a power density detector for producing a beam power signal, which may be supplied on line 32 to servo control unit 19 or 19'.
- Servo control unit 19 (and 19') preferably includes a microprocessor for generating the feedback control signal for the telescope from the beam power signal.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an alternative embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 indicates that the features of the invention discussed above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 may also be embodied in other ring laser systems having alternative ring resonator configurations and different numbers of mirrors.
- the ring cavity is triangular and is defined by three mirrors 105, 107, and 109 (unlike the ring cavity in FIGS. 1 and 2, which is quadrilateral, and is defined by four mirrors 5, 7, 9, and 11).
- Mirrors 107 and 109 are preferably maximally reflective, and mirror 105 is partially reflective.
- laser beam 126 is rendered quasi-unidirectional, with most of its power propagating in a clockwise direction.
- a first portion of the clockwise component of beam 126 is reflected by mirror 105 toward mirror 109, and a second portion is transmitted from rod 101 and telescope 103 through mirror 105 to become output beam 128.
- a first portion of the counter-clockwise component of beam 126 (identified by reference numeral 127) is transmitted through mirror 105 toward mirror 111, and from mirror 111 is reflected from mirror 105 to become part of output beam 128.
- the remaining portion of the counter-clockwise component of beam 126 is reflected from mirror 105 back toward mirror 107.
- FIG. 3 ring laser is convenient because output beam 128 is in-line with laser rod 101.
- the FIG. 3 system may readily be mounted on an optical rail or bench.
- the FIG. 3 configuration also eliminates two mirrors that were required in the FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 embodiments (i.e., the FIG. 3 system requires only four mirrors, 105, 107, 109, and 111, while the FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 systems require six mirrors, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 17).
- telescope 103 (which includes lenses 102 and 104) and polarization rotator 121 correspond with, and serve the same functions as telescope 3' and rotator 21 in FIG. 2.
- a servo control unit (not shown in FIG. 3), of any of the types described above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, may be coupled with telescope 103 in the FIG. 3 system, to provide a servo control signal for automatically varying the inter-lens separation of telescope 103.
- FIG. 4 is a graph representing output laser beam quality M 2 versus output beam power for two types of conventional laser systems, and for an embodiment of the invention.
- the two upper curves represent data, measured by us, characterizing two conventional linear rod lasers.
- the curve labeled "Ring No. 3" represents data, measured by us, characterizing a conventional rod laser having a ring cavity configuration.
- the bottom curve, labeled "Ring No. 4", represents data, measured by us, characterizing the FIG. 1 embodiment of the invention.
- Other measurements have revealed that the FIG. 1 embodiment of the invention has achieved an output laser beam having quality M 2 less than 20 over a wide output beam power range from about 50 watts to over 300 watts.
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